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"We feel
very good about the win, very good about some things that went on. We don't
have a zone, so it's hard to practice against a zone when we don't have one
ourselves. That was great for us tonight to get that practice. It was great to
get 10 guys with double-figure minutes.

"We did try to do a lot of things
with a lot of different lineups. Four freshmen, first time they were in there,
so I think it was good for them. Gardner-Webb had an experienced team, and they
made us look bad at times. I am disappointed in how we played, but I'm not
disappointed in my team.

"I think it was a good night for us,
and I think we learned a lot. Hopefully, we'll be able to do some things
tomorrow morning in practice to help us get better, and we need to be better on
Sunday. We talked about earlier this week, six games in 12 or 13 days.

"James Michael [McAdoo] 26 and 14,
those are pretty big-time numbers. I'd like him to do it without having to take
20 shots. We've got to have the other guys be more active on the backboards and
not just him. I've been saying, with Leslie [McDonald] and Reggie [Bullock] and
P.J. [Hairston] that we're a good shooting team. One for 12 from the three-point
line doesn't look like it, but Reggie was almost unselfish to a fault tonight.
He's got to take a couple more of the shots and guys have to got be willing to
screen for him to get him open too.

'All in all, I congratulate Gardner-Webb.
They did some nice things and it was a great help for us, and hopefully they
gained some things from it as well."

On what he would like
to see from the new players

"Marcus [Paige] made some
mistakes, but I thought he was in charge out there. I think he learned some
things tonight. J.P. [Tokoto] didn't play as many minutes, but he is an active
body. I thought Joel [James] and Bryce [Johnson] were so much better in the
first half. I think all four of the guys gave us something and hopefully that
will be something that we can go on. "

On whether or not it
is concerning that Marcus Paige did not have assists

"We counted that he had several
because two or three times there was a guy and that guy lays it up and gets
fouled. Truthfully, that means the guard or whoever the passer is did his job.
That really does not concern me. [On Marcus' four turnovers] That concerns me.
Zero four, we don't like that, but he's a freshman, and he's going to be really
good."

On whether Joel's
play tonight will affect Sunday's starting lineup

"I don't know. We started him
the second half, but I think he could do some good things. He's got to stay out
of foul trouble. He made some silly little fouls. Three for three is pretty
good. You can tie it but you can't beat it. Four fouls, you've got to make
better decisions on that. I think he did some good things, we started him, like
I said, in the second half. We're going to play all those guys."

On what more he wants
from Reggie Bullock

"I can think of three situations
completely where he's wide open. He's trying to be unselfish. Everybody else
needs to try to be that way. The best shooter needs to try and step up and take
some shots. He's doing what we asked him to do. He's taking it to an extent
that it's a fault. I've said it before about good players, and I'm not really that
concerned about Reggie. He'll be fine."

On how Dexter
Strickland handled his first game back

"I thought he did some good
things. We're still not as smooth as I want us to be, whoever is in the game. I
get on Dexter a lot for dribbling so much, and one time at the end he's
dribbling but nobody is doing anything to get open. That's not his fault. He
does a nice job of attacking the basket, and I think he did that tonight. We've
got to get him to get a couple of rebounds. Twenty-four minutes is about what I
expected and hoped to get out of him. Really I don't want to push anybody, but
especially Dexter, Leslie and Marcus."

DEXTER STRICKLAND

On the expectations
of the team

"Everyone is saying that we're the underdog. They don't think that we'll be as successful
as we were last year because we lost so many guys. I think this was for us to set a statement;
for us to go out there and punch them in the mouth first before they do that to
us. I told everybody, 'Make sure you
come out ready to play and be aggressive.

"I think we still need to do a better job. We still have some areas we need to go over
and get better at in practice, and we have a lot of work to do but I think we
have come a long way."

On the development of
freshman players

"Brice (Johnson) is coming along very well. Marcus (Paige), as you can see, is doing very
well. Joel (James), he still doesn't
know how strong he is so once he figures that out he's going to be a
problem. J.P. (Tokoto) is doing good for
us. I think everybody is gelling
together. Like I said, we still have a
lot of work to do."

MARCUS PAIGE

On his performance in
the game

"Obviously I'm a little disappointed in how I turned the
ball over, but that's a team thing also.
I need to work on that a little bit.
I had my moments too; I made some good passes, guys that got fouled, or
just didn't finish the layup. I think I
can build off this. It was a decent
game. I got the first game out of the
way and first game jitters out of the way.
I think I did alright but there's definitely a lot of room for
improvement."

On Coach Williams
giving him confidence

"I think he (Coach Williams) has given me a lot of
confidence and the guys are starting to have a little confidence in me. That's good for me, it helps me just focus on
my game and not worry about a lot of other things. We also have guys like Luke Davis and Dexter
(Strickland) who can play the 1. It's
not completely on me to do everything which is also helpful that we have a
solid backcourt."

On the "jitters" of
his first game

"After the first few trips up and down, you make a good pass
or a good defensive play, or you start to break a sweat, they (jitters) start
to go away."

Gardner-Webb Head Coach Chris Holtmann

Opening Statement
"I thought they [North Carolina] were terrific with their activity on the glass. That was obviously a point of emphasis coming in for us. I think they are such a well coached team, I know they are young but they are so well coached in what they do. Our zone slowed them down just a little bit, but I give them credit. I thought they were really disciplined in their attack. They hurt us where you can get hurt in the zone, and that was on the offensive glass."

On what his team can gain from this
"I think playing against a team with this size and length helps you more than anything. Obviously the environment is terrific and I think as Coach Williams's teams always have, they will continue to improve as the season progresses. I think our guys can take some confidence in the fact that they stayed with it. We talked to them about hitting singles in the second half. We want to hit singles and we want to win the four-minute battles that you have in the second half. We want to continue to chip away at it. I think we had good discipline, better shot discipline in the second half, we just played a little bit better in the second half and stayed with it. I'm proud of our guys for that but we certainly have a lot to clean up in terms of rebounding the ball better and not turning the ball over if we're going to be a better team."

On Carolina's Luke Davis, who transferred from Gardner-Webb
"Great kid. Great family. He's one of those kids that's just the salt of the Earth."